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Bound Print, Dessein de l’illumination et du feu d’artifice donné à Monseigneur le Dauphin à Meudon le 3e septembre 1735

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger and production directed by Michel de Bonneval and print maker: Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger and published by Imprimerie de Ballard and from the office of Menus-Plaisirs du Roi. It is dated 1756 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

61.1 × 91.4 cm (24 1/16 × 36 in.)

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower left : Debonneval Invenit. ; lower right : C.N. Cochin filius delineavit et Sculpsit

It is inscribed

Printed in plate, lower center : DESSEIN DE L’ILLUMINATION ET DU FEU D’ARTIFICE DONNÉ A MONSEIGNEUR LE DAUPHIN / A MEUDON LE 3E. SEPTEMBRE 1735. / Cette feste ordonnée par M. Le Duc De Gesvres Pair de France, Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre du Roy, à esté conduite par / M. Debonneval Intendant et Controlleur general de L’argenterie, Menus plaisirs et affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté.

Cite this object as

Bound Print, Dessein de l’illumination et du feu d’artifice donné à Monseigneur le Dauphin à Meudon le 3e septembre 1735; Designed by Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger (1715 - 1790); Production directed by Michel de Bonneval (French, d. 1766); Office of Menus-Plaisirs du Roi; Published by Imprimerie de Ballard; France; etching and engraving on laid paper; 61.1 × 91.4 cm (24 1/16 × 36 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-205-2

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